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They traveled through a country of night hawks, deer, bears, panthers, wildcats, and hunted turkeys by moonlight. At St. Louis they drove across the prairie through flowering and fragrant shrubs, past orchards bending and breaking with loads of fruit, where boys rode by on calico ponies "hallowing & laughing." Around the houses were "fat Negro wenches, drying apples & peaches on boards under trees," and in the villages were strapping Indian squaws from the tribes famed for the beauty of their women. Irving thought the Indians were like strange, wild, magnificent prairie birds. They rode by in scarlet turbans with plumes...
...Russian front from the Baltic to Yugoslavia, Guderian conferred in Königsberg (according to the Soviet news agency Tass) with fat Hermann Göring, who had a personal reason for fury. The Russians had seized Göring's favorite hunting lodge in the East Prussian deer forest of Rominter Heide, after scattering the SS regiment on guard there. They found the lodge's wine cellar well stocked with French champagne, the study table piled with topographical maps annotated in handwriting believed to be Göring's own. A meal prepared in the kitchen...
Beyond was the first big town in East Prussia, Gumbinnen, scene of the first World War I battle between Germans and Russians. Chernyakhovsky's left wing skirted the Rominter Heide, a deer forest once held sacred to Kaiser Wilhelm's royal hunting, captured Goldap 18 miles inside Germany...
...pair of shoes out of the hide of a deer he killed. He sickened once after a meal of wild fruit. But he fared pretty well most of the time. " I guess the mountain air agreed with me," said Tweed...
Wild Boys. Third son of the fourth Earl of Caledon, Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander was born 52 years ago in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.* The family, Catholics in a predominantly Protestant region, lived in a rambling old stone house surrounded by a forest and park where fallow deer ran wild. Harold's father died when he was a baby, and he and his four brothers ran wild, too, returning to the house mostly for sleep...